Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing
Philip J. Scarfo is currently the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Lumidigm. He has more than 20 years of executive-level experience in the biometrics and personal identification industry.
Prior to joining Lumidigm, Mr. Scarfo held a number of senior executive positions in both start-up and Fortune 500 companies, including NEC, HID Global, and Polaroid ID (now L-1). He was CEO and co-founder of Imprivata, a successful identity management software company that employs a wide range of identity and access technologies. Among these are biometrics and other strong authentication technologies, including smart cards, secure tokens, data encryption, OTPs and enterprise-wide identity management software.
As SVP of NEC’s solutions business, Mr. Scarfo was responsible for NEC’s AFIS and Public Safety solutions business in the US, including many of the largest AFIS deployments in service today. At HID Global, he directed the company’s integrated identity and logical access business. These solutions offered biometrics and integrated contact and contactless smart card solutions for both physical and logical access control.
As VP of Polaroid’s worldwide identification business, Mr. Scarfo was responsible for a wide range of identity documents worldwide (US driver’s licenses, passports, national and voter ID card programs). His team was the first to deploy many finger and facial biometrics technologies in large-scale identification programs.
Mr. Scarfo has both an undergraduate (BA Math) and graduate degree (MBA) from Northeastern University in Boston. He also attended Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business for post graduate studies.
